Divine Discourses Archive

Climb the Right Tree

In the following discourse, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba enumerates the various qualities required of a devotee and explains what real devotion is. Know that your hunger has not been fully appeased even after

How to Win the Lord’s Grace

Oh good and noble people assembled here! May you be filled with mutual affection and unalloyed joy! May you be compassionate toward all those who are afflicted! May you lead righteous family lives and

Develop Spiritual Oneness

Religion teaches self-discipline and promotes one’s well being; it enhances one’s spiritual power and makes one effulgent. If people live without knowing its inner secret, the community and its culture decline and suffer. Embodiments

Lost and Found

In His Navratri discourse, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba asked His devotees to sharpen their intellect and cleanse their consciousness to attain peace and security through satsang, japa, dhyana, and namasmarana, (holy company, chanting, meditation,

Significance of Vinayaka Worship

The stream of man’s life is marked by different stages. In each stage man falls a prey to vices like egoism, jealousy, and falsehood instead of cultivating truth, righteousness, and humility. A life that

The Spider in the Same Web

 In the following discourse, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai says that the taste of the Divine can be experienced in the atom or the cosmos, the friend as well as the foe, the virus and

God Alone is the Sadguru

Brahmanandam Parama Sukhadam Kevalam Jnanamurtim Dvandvateetam Gagana Sadrisham Tattwamasyadilakshyam Ekam Nityam Vimalam Achalam Sarvadhee Sakshibhutam Bhavateetam Trigunarahitam Sadgurum. Embodiments of divine love, It is not easy to understand the divine principle. The ego of

The Ego and the Avatar

Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba, in His discourse on Onam Day in 1983, said that man must destroy his ego to attain self-realization. Bhagavatham represents the essence of all the Shastras (spiritual sciences), the

Sign and Symptom of Glory

Man has to journey over a road that is littered with pleasure and pain, grief and joy; this journey can be smooth only when he resorts to wisdom, devotion, and detachment as his equipment

What Great Mothers Mean to the Nation

The father, to teach the child the truth, May chide, reprove or beat. The mother may pinch the cheek To make the child drink the milk. Forget not at any time These marks of

Clarion Call for Ceiling on Desires

Bhagavan addressed the members of the Sri Sathya Sai Organization of Tamil Nadu at Abbotsbury clarifying His vision of the ‘Ceiling on Desires’ program. “Members appear to be confused about the true meaning of

The Flowers that God Loves

In this discourse, Bhagavan Sri Sathya Sai Baba says, “This creation is like the bridge that connects man with God. ‘I’ is one hill. ‘God’ is another hill. The bridge between the two is